Maya Moore scored 32 points and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Tulsa Shock 79-72 in Tulsa, Okla., on Sunday in a showdown between the top two teams in the Western Conference.Minnesota (12-3) won its fourth straight and sent Tulsa (10-7) to its third loss...

At Minneapolis, former UConn All-American Maya Moore matched her season's high with 29 points and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Chicago Sky 84-66 on Friday night.Minnesota (11-3) won its third in a row and fourth straight at home, and snapped Chicago's...

UNCASVILLE — In her first return to Mohegan Sun Arena since the final game of the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, Asjha Jones saw plenty of familiar faces. Yes, plenty of familiar faces and familiar things.
"The first one I saw was that dang...

Watching bench player Kirk Nieuwenhuis slug his way into the record book Sunday by becoming the first player in Mets history to hit three homers in one home game inspired the Fly to ask its research department to find other Herculean efforts by MLBers...

UNCASVILLE — The difference between winning the Eastern Conference and qualifying for the WNBA draft lottery can be measured by a bad week. The six teams are separated from top to bottom by just two games.It wasn't that way until recently, when the...

In just the handful of days Kiah Stokes has been with the New York Liberty, the former UConn center has made a huge impact on their coach, former NBA center Bill Laimbeer.
But she hasn't done it the way UConn fans have come to expect, with rebounding,...

The WNBA's normal offseason passes quietly and without incident, much like its regular season, which struggles to draw attention from those without direct involvement or interest. But not this time around.The league has been thrust in the eye of the...

Defending champ Petra Kvitova, ranked fourth in the world, will be back in New Haven this summer to play in the Connecticut Open, Aug. 21-29 at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale. And the State Open high school tennis finals will be played...

UNCASVILLE – Asjha Jones had not played for the Connecticut Sun since the final game of the 2012 Eastern Conference finals. With each passing day, it grew increasingly unlikely she would change her mind about returning to the Sun.And so on Wednesday,...

On March 29, 2002, The Courant ran a story with a headline "The Best Starting Five Ever" accompanied by a photo of seniors Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Asjha Jones and Tamika Williams, and sophomore Diana Taurasi.We labeled them as such but also said...

STORRS — This time of year, Geno Auriemma's bags are always packed. It's recruiting season, when college basketball coaches hit the road to gauge the nation's gifted youth.The only difference this autumn is where UConn's coach will be heading — and the...

Playing for Geno Auriemma is not easy. And it shouldn't be, or so say those who fully subscribe to the risk-reward theory of finding success.But that's not really the point now, as the state celebrates his record ninth women's basketball...

Sometimes by chance, sometimes by design, but always because they keep score, basketball creates numbers that set records, start trends and stimulate conversation.As the UConn women prepare for the 2012-13 season, here are a few that two decades of...

After leading the United States women's basketball team to its fifth straight Olympic gold in August, Geno Auriemma was asked if he'd be willing to accept one more term in office; you know, try to do it again in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
In that instant, a...

Breanna StewartWhat to expect: One of the best freshman the Big East has ever seen.High school legacy: Consensus player of the year as a senior at Cicero-North Syracuse; scored 2,367 points with 1,389 rebounds.You probably don't know: Is a scholar-athlete...